S&P 500 measures the performance of 500 widely held common stocks of large-cap US companies.

"While this feels unprecedented and feels like a massive change in investors' behavior, all we have really done is return to a more normalized market", said Todd Hawthorne, lead portfolio manager at Boston Partners.

The Shanghai Composite index dipped to 3,073.08 Friday morning but recovered slightly before its midday close.

Technology companies and banks, some of the biggest winners on the market over the past year, are up the most.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 74.08 points or 0.30% at 24,686.92 while the S&P 500 was also slightly higher, up 7.17 points or 0.28 % at 2,665.06. Instead, it was a healthy market correction that is welcomed and long overdue.

For Chinese companies listed in the United States, shares of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba rose 0.44 percent to end at 177.44 USA dollars on Monday, while shares of another Chinese technology company Baidu soared 2.77 percent to close at 221.64 US dollars.

Last week was Wall Street's worst in about two years, but USA stocks managed to recover and close in the green for a second straight day.

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"You nearly could hear a collective sigh of relief on Friday when the market closed higher on the day - and ahead of a weekend at that", John Stoltzfus, the chief investment strategist at Oppenheimer Asset Management, said in a note on Monday. The U.S. consumer-price index will be released January and may reveal the extent the tighter jobs market is creating inflation.

USA stocks finished solidly higher on Monday (Feb 12) following an upbeat session free of the jolts of volatility that plagued equities for more than a week.

The rise in stock prices Monday is giving some investors hope that the worst may be over. The S&P 500 energy index is down 12.7 percent over the past month.

The Dow industrials were up 279 points, or 1.2 percent, to 24,471. The futures on US WTI crude oil ended with increase of 0.09 USD to 59.29 USD per barrel, while Brent oil fell by 0.20 USD to 62.59 USD per barrel. after rising to 64.40 USD earlier during the session.

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SpaceX and Boeing, meanwhile, are developing crew capsules to fly astronauts to and from the space station within the next year. Andrew Rush, chief executive of 3-D printing company Made In Space, said plainly that the ISS isn't built for profit seeking.

The police in a statement recommended that the Israeli leader should be charged as they had "enough evidence" to indict him. The statement was Mandelblit's first since police recommended filing criminal charges against Netanyahu on Tuesday.

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However, we are expecting some more smartphones to be made available in India after the launch of the above-mentioned devices. He revealed that Nokia has jumped to the eleventh spot on the global smartphone brand list in latest numbers for Q4 2017.

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